Thursday 5 December 2013

Enviro Kids Final Harvest week 8 Term 4 2013

Kia Ora Whanau!

Those amazing Enviro Kids worked really hard on Wednesday and achieved sooooo much!
Neither snow, nor sleet, nor rain pouring down could stop them.

They harvested the potatoes and the silverbeet.

 
Dug out the strawberry plants and put them in a bucket with some soil to take home and nurture them for even more strawberries.
 
 
Made and drank strawberry smoothies with the strawberries we had harvested and kept in the freezer until we had enough for everyone. Yum, yum, yum they tasted great! Thank you Mrs Hart for the idea.
 
 
 


 
Completed and created even more fabulous art from recycled bottle tops. Thank you Bob for all your help with the drilling of holes!
 



 
And not only all that, but, they also cooked up a storm of delicious new potatoes with mint, (also taken from our gardens), and ate them with butter. Great work Enviro Kids! You Rock!
 
 
That was our final day for Enviro Kids for the year and we want to thank everyone who has supported us and encouraged us to keep on making a difference in our school gardens. Have a wonderful break over the summer holidays and we look forward to another amazing year in 2014! 
 
 
 
 

Thursday 28 November 2013

Enviro Kids Week 7 Term 4 2013

This week those fabulous Enviro Kids have been preparing for a big day next week!
They will be harvesting from all the gardens.
Digging over all the soil.
Putting a strawberry plant in a bucket for them to take home and care for over the holidays.
Washing the gardening gloves.
Checking the gardening equipment.
Cooking and eating the potatoes.
Taking some potatoes home to share with their families.
Completing some garden art and having it installed.
Anything else that needs doing but wasn't on our list.

Whew! We will be busy!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Thursday 21 November 2013

Enviro Kids Week 6 Term 4 2013

Kia ora Everyone!

Those fabulous Enviro Kids have been working so hard watering, weeding and caring for our edible gardens, that we gave them free Subway for lunch!
Well done Enviro Kids!



Thursday 14 November 2013

Enviro Kids Week 5 Term 4 2013

Welcome to week 5 everyone! We hope you have been enjoying the lovely sunny weather. This has been helping our plants grow, especially the strawberries, but of course we have had to do a lot more watering.






 
Happy gardening everyone!

Thursday 7 November 2013

Enviro Kids week 4 Term 4 2013

Kia Ora Whanau!

This week we have been using recyclable materials to create some awesome garden art.

We started by drilling holes in the many coloured milk bottle tops that everyone has collected. We were very lucky to have Bob to help us. Thank you Bob!



Then we threaded them onto our steel pole.

 
We love recycling!
Look for these art works in our gardens after next week.

Tuesday 29 October 2013

Enviro Kids Week 3 Term 4 2013

Kia ora Everyone! Well, it may be a short week but we have packed in plenty of watering, weeding and harvesting!

 
 
Lucky Room 16 gets to take these home this week!
 
We hope you all had a good break over Labour Weekend and got the chance to enjoy the lovely weather.

Last week we used our collection of strawberries to make smoothies! Yes, they tasted as good as they looked!

 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Enviro Kids Week 2 Term 4 2013

Welcome to Week Two of Term 4!

We are very grateful to all the rain and sunshine we have had over the past few weeks. Our silverbeet and spinach has really taken off!

This week we harvested the gardens in front of Room 7 and the produce has gone to Room 15 to take home and share with their families.



 
 
 
And here are the lucky people in Room 15 who got to take that silverbeet home.
 
 
 
 

Tuesday 15 October 2013

Enviro Kids Week 1 Term 4 2013

Kia ora whanau! Welcome back to school for Term 4, the last for 2013.

Hands up if you like big red juicy strawberries! Yes, we do too.

This week our fabulous Enviro Kids got to sample the fruits of their labours by picking and eating the ripe red ones in our gardens.


 
 
 
Mmmmm, mmmmmm! They were delicious!
 
Happy gardening everyone.
 
 

Tuesday 24 September 2013

Enviro Kids Week 9 Term 3 2013

Kia Ora Whanau!

Welcome to week 9 and our final week of the term.

This week the Enviro Kids have planted some seed potatoes that will be ready to harvest before the Christmas holidays.

 
We made sure that they had all sprouted.
 
 
We dug two trenches to put the potatoes in.
 
 
Then we carefully placed the seed potatoes into the trench and covered them lightly with soil.
 
 
Now we will watch for green shoots popping up and cover them with more soil.
 
Watch this space!
 
And have a lovely break over the holidays! Happy gardening!
 
 
 

Thursday 19 September 2013

Enviro Kids Week 8 Term 3 2013

Kia ora Everyone!

We are very grateful for the rain we have had this week. It has meant that our strawberries had a real growth spurt.
Check it out!



 
 

Monday 16 September 2013

EnviroKids Week 7 Term 3 2013

Kia ora everyone!

What a great week for harvesting!

After taking such good care of our silverbeet plants we have been able to share a big harvest.

This week all the Enviro Kids got to take some home to share with their whanau.



 
 
 

Thursday 5 September 2013

Enviro Kids Week 6 2013

Malo e lelei! Welcome to Tongan Language Week.

This week the Enviro Kids were busy watering and caring for our gardens.

Look how they have grown!





 
 
Happy gardening everyone!